Columns
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Fathers and sons part of the fabric of the national gameJun 18, 2022 1:00 am - The black-and-white newsreel clip shows a young pitcher wearing a White Sox uniform with the O and the X nestled within the S. It's the same style of uniform Shoeless Jo...
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Constable: Battery-powered LVAD dad celebrates the holidaysJun 18, 2022 1:00 am - Look! Up at that calendar! It's Father's Day! It's Juneteenth! It's LVAD Dad Day! While there's no official holiday for the last of these, every day is LVAD Dad Day for ...
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Primo cast makes Drury Lane's 'Steel Magnolias' worth seeingJun 17, 2022 3:00 pm - “Steel Magnolias” - ★ ★ ★/h3> When it came to casting Drury Lane Theatre's “Steel Magnolias,” director Johanna McKenzie Miller and casting director Matthew D. Carney hit...
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Cubs haven't ruled out top prospect Davis returning from surgery this seasonJun 17, 2022 12:00 pm - The Cubs haven't ruled out top prospect Brennen Davis playing again this season, according to president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer. The outfielder had back surgery...
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Spotlight: Cirque Italia brings pirate-themed spectacle to AuroraJun 17, 2022 6:00 am - 'Choir boy' Steppenwolf Theatre stages ensemble member Tarell Alvin McCraney's drama with music "Choir Boy," about a prep school senior determined to be the best leader ...
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St. Charles builder discovers indoor cycling, opens his own CycleBar franchiseJun 17, 2022 6:00 am - Operating Fiore Builders Inc. for the past 26 years could be somewhat stressful, so it was no surprise that owner Vince Fiore was looking for a place to exercise and blo...
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Juneteenth festivals and fun coming in suburbs, but organizers see more than celebrationsJun 17, 2022 5:20 am - Suburbanites will mark the year-old federal and state holiday of Juneteenth with a weekend of festivals, parades, flag-raisings and other celebrations. But the holiday o...
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Why an appellate court denied Degorski's latest bid for new trial in Brown's Chicken murdersJun 17, 2022 5:10 am - A witness who provided police with the break they needed to arrest two men in the 1993 Brown's Chicken murders in Palatine stood to gain a six-figure reward for her tip ...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: My father's father: The traces he leftJun 17, 2022 1:00 am - My father's father died when Dad was 8, just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Born in 1901, the grandfather I never knew died in 1941. It was the darkest of times for...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: When the mob is liberal, Biden doesn't careJun 17, 2022 1:00 am - The flyer urging activists to protest in front of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's Maryland home offers two reasons for violating the privacy of a public servan...